After the Mk 9 Jaguar came, logically enough, the MK 10 and this was to be one of the most successful Jaguar saloons of the 1960s era, creating a benchmark in silky smooth performance and comfort as well as creating one of the most distinctive and instantly recognisable cars of all time.
The Jaguar Mk 9, like those before it, owed much to the styles created before the Second World War. But this Jaguar sported the look that was to see the manufacturer through the 60s and on into the next decade.
This was also one of the most instantly recognisable of cars with it’s large yet perfectly proportioned body and distinctive front end treatment. It was a car that was as nice for the driver as it was for the passenger and for those people lucky enough to own one, it was a car that you never tired of taking out on the road.
A successor to the fabulous and very successful Jensen 541R we look at the Jensen CV8, the sports car that everyone (including me) wanted in the early 1960s.
Ford didn’t make revolutionary cars in the early post war years (although this was soon to change) and their reputation was based on development rather than innovation. For example the Ford Anglia, for which the Escort was a replacement, was a solid, development model that sold and sold and sold throughout it’s quite long production run with little modification.
The original Ford Fairlane was a full size 1950s American car and something of a classic but in 1962 the name was switched to this second generation model which is a smaller and more compact version.
In the 1950s and 60s the big Fords in the UK were very much a development of the luxury of pre-war motoring and aimed squarely at those with a little more in their pocket who could afford to pay for and run a big car.
In the early 1960s the small car market was expanding and car ownership was just beginning its exponential increase that would continue until the present day. Vauxhall wanted to be in on the small action and so, in 1963, they produced an all new car which they called the Viva.
Sometimes there comes along a car that is so unusual that you either love it or hate it and the DAF Daffodil was just one of those cars. It also has the distinction of being a Dutch car which is unusual in itself.
Introduced originally before the war, the Special was one of Buick’s lower priced models in America, although it was not, it has to be said, a cheap car over here.